Improvement in refrigerators and water-coolers



DLPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

ANTHONY ISKE, 0F

LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, AssieNon To DANIEL lH. LINTNEE, oE sAMEPLAcE.

Letters Patent No. 113,056, dated March 28, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN REFRIGERATORS AND WATER-COOLERS.

The Schedule r'efene.- to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, ANTHONY IsKE, of Lancaster', in the county of Lancaster' and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in the construction and arrangement of a Combined Refrigerator and Water-Cooler, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the mannerV of constructing a convenient refrigerator for keeping liquids cool in hotels or for domestic use, combined with icc-water, so arranged that the ice is above the water in the vessel, and preserved for a longer time from melting,.and providing the vessel with air-tubes and draught-pipe.

The accompanying drawing will illustrate my in vention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combined iceehanxber and refrigerator. v

Figure 2 is a vertical section toexplain the inside arrangement.

A briefI explanation will enable any one` ,skilled in the art to niake and use my invention.

A is a semicircular (or approximately such) vessel, made ont of tinned sheet-iron or the like non-corrod ing material, the sides and bottom double, for heilig packed with charcoal-dust or its equivalent, in the 0rdinar-y manner. f'

The top B, ii". l, may also be double, and afxed or fashioned into a cap, with a rim to t down upon the vessel A, so that it can be lifted off in order to clean the inside when desirable. The other vessels are inserted through periblations made in said top or lid B.

These vessels consist of a double andpacked cylinder, I), provided on each side with au ai1'1tnbe, d, opening from the under side of the cap or top B to top of the cylinder, for the'escapc of heated air or vapor formed within.

This cylinder D contains the ice-chamber E, with its lid and couic base L and perforated screen K, upon which latter .the lump of ice I rests.

The conic base L is perforated directly over the draught-pipe M, which receives a spiggot, F, by which the water is drawn off, said pipe extending back to beneath the center of the perforation in the conic base aforesaid.

The side vessels G1 C2 C, fig. l, may b@ Omb (0f round, for decanters,) and ot' any size, form, or number desirable.

The top cylinder, with the ice-chambeiyalso lifts o, with its air-tubes, as do the side chambers, with their respective lids, which lids are also double and packed.

By putting clean water into the vessel A, to which ice may also be added, and then a lump of ice deposited in tbevice-cllamber, a large supply of ice-Water will be had and kept cool, as will butter, milk, or other liquids or materials placed in the side vessels, without fouling the Water for drinking purposes.

This arrangement is believed to Ybe newv and valuable for llousekeepers as well as landlords, and highlyY desirable during the heated' term, not only to prevent things from spoiling, but by affording a'cool drink of water or other liquid.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe arrangement of the combined ice-chamber E, with its conie base L: and screen K, when inclosed within a double cylinder, D,provided with air-tubes (l, a vessel, A,`sidc vessels C* C2 "3, and extended draught or pipe M, substantially inthe manner and for the' purpose shown and set fort-l1.

ANTHONY ISEE.

\Vitnesses:

J No. M. AMWEG, JACOB STAUEEER. 

